An experiment consisting of adding fumes from decomposing wastewater into Sydney’s gas supply is about to start operating. This unique technology could possible have potential for it to be used across the country.
That all starts at the Malabar Biomethane Plant in southeastern Sydney. The facility traps the biogas, which is a mixture of methane, CO2 and small quantities of other gases produced by the digestion of organic matter in an oxygen-free environment.
This is created as organic waste streams including agricultural industrial waste, as well as sewerage.
Jemena, a company which owns and operates electricity and gas assets across Australia, will take in the resulting Biogas, convert it to pipeline-quality biomethane, and blend it into the natural gas that is currently being pumped into the homes of Sydney.
But Sydney is not the only city who makes this waste useful.
John Slutsky, the co-owner of the company La Luna Dairy, is making the manure from his cows to a facility called Heartland, where it gets liquified, mixed together, and cooked up, speeding up the production of making methane.
With a little bit more of refining, that methane is almost identical to the gases drilled from underground. The gas produced here is pumped in the pipeline where all other natural gases go, entering homes with little to no difference.
The restaurant “Park Burger” in Denver is also making natural gases in a different way, composting. General manager T.J Mcreynolds pays a little bit more for composting services on top of his trash bill.
He thought it would end up like mulch somewhere. He said in an interview, “Never once did I even consider it would end up being used for natural gases.”
Now hundreds of Colorado schools, restaurants, and grocery stores have begun sending their scraps to Heartland, turning waste into a serious powerhouse.
That all starts at the Malabar Biomethane Plant in southeastern Sydney. The facility traps the biogas, which is a mixture of methane, CO2 and small quantities of other gases produced by the digestion of organic matter in an oxygen-free environment.
This is created as organic waste streams including agricultural industrial waste, as well as sewerage.
Jemena, a company which owns and operates electricity and gas assets across Australia, will take in the resulting Biogas, convert it to pipeline-quality biomethane, and blend it into the natural gas that is currently being pumped into the homes of Sydney.
But Sydney is not the only city who makes this waste useful.
John Slutsky, the co-owner of the company La Luna Dairy, is making the manure from his cows to a facility called Heartland, where it gets liquified, mixed together, and cooked up, speeding up the production of making methane.
With a little bit more of refining, that methane is almost identical to the gases drilled from underground. The gas produced here is pumped in the pipeline where all other natural gases go, entering homes with little to no difference.
The restaurant “Park Burger” in Denver is also making natural gases in a different way, composting. General manager T.J Mcreynolds pays a little bit more for composting services on top of his trash bill.
He thought it would end up like mulch somewhere. He said in an interview, “Never once did I even consider it would end up being used for natural gases.”
Now hundreds of Colorado schools, restaurants, and grocery stores have begun sending their scraps to Heartland, turning waste into a serious powerhouse.